WhatsApp US market challenge

SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 (Bernama) - Brian Acton, co-founder of US-based chat application developer WhatsApp, said Wednesday that it is difficult to increase the penetration of WhatsApp in the United States and other markets Thing, but the company will still create substantial revenue for its parent company, Facebook.

Speaking at StartX, an incubator at Stanford University, Wednesday, Elkton said: "The growth in the United States poses a challenge for us." But he also said that Japan and Taiwan, China could "work harder to get bigger success".

This is the first public appearance of Exton after Facebook announced its $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp earlier this year. He said despite WhatsApp's independence from Facebook, he believes the company will deliver 1 billion new users to Facebook.

In his view, the two companies have an "independent but equal" relationship, and if they are intertwined, they will bring "risks and dangers."

Concerned that Facebook may get access to WhatsApp user data, he responded that WhatsApp does not have much value data to share. "We do not have much data except for phone numbers." And the company's employees do not fully gather user information, not to mention that everything is encrypted.

While many of today's students are hoping to work for start-up companies, Acton spoke highly of his earlier experience working for big companies such as Apple and Yahoo. In his opinion, he learned a lot of key skills at those giants, including large-scale server management experience.

However, Ixton still seize the opportunity to recruit talent for their start-up companies: "Please join us." After hearing this, the audience burst into laughter. (Book Yu)